Get over it: Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days

In the beginning, Microsoft was The Evil Empire. In 2001 then CEO Steve Ballmer declared: “Linux is a cancer.” Later, Microsoft sponsored SCO’s copyright attack on Linux; claimed that Linux violated unnamed Microsoft patents; and forced Linux-based Android vendors to pay for dubious patent claims. Bill Gates and Ballmer’s Microsoft wanted to see Linux and open-source software (OSS) dead and buried.